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So many things wrong, and so many assumptions in one response!
It does like this (or spark laptops) is not your cup of tea, and likely for many others. But I can think of many (including myself) using this or spark. I am not going to buy a $3K spark laptop, because that wont be a value for money for me personally, but if it comes out at $2k with 64GB RAM, I would absolutely consider it a steal - for me.
I do SW development and I have Gemini AI Pro subscription. I use Gemini AND local models for coding. There are many other scenarios too. You may not see a need, but there are lots of people doing this.
Have you used an Windows on ARM recently? You don't need to be a noob on x86 to use it. While it has its weaknesses, it also has many strengths. Its weaknesses get a lot of press from some people because one of their legacy app cant run on it, or because they cant run their favorite game at 8k and gazillion hertz. I agree its not a good choice for those, but for a lot of others who keep an open mind - it is absolutely a great choice.
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Google Antigravity,, I do a lot more and I do it on a 6 year old Thinkpad with 16GB of memory.... Heck it runs so better on my $400 M4 16Gb Macmini... Im sure you know Antigravity doesn't work properly on Arm and has bugh Google doesn't like to fix bcoz they think nobody cares.. Local models for coding ?? which ones and whatz the point bcoz they cant stand in front of frontline LLMs unless you are building some mickeymouse webpages.. AI studio now uses antigravity all on cloud efficiently..
The newer Intel and AMD chips with better battery performance essentially killed Arm on laptops.. Actually u can get a 32GB Intel Ultra 2 15 inch Yogi 7i aura for $800 these days, why pay 2X for some Arm laptop...
Just wait til they release $400 googlebook where you pretty much can do all the coding locally for a fraction of the price..
I'm not saying there are users for these Arm laptops, there certainly are but not the smart ones and I have yet to see a compelling reason to buy one for that price when x86 chips are equal or better and not have to worry about compatibility. The last thing is you take this laptop on a travel and you figure out something you really needed doesn;t work.. LOL
Lets talk...
Google Antigravity,, I do a lot more and I do it on a 6 year old Thinkpad with 16GB of memory.... Heck it runs so better on my $400 M4 16Gb Macmini... Im sure you know Antigravity doesn't work properly on Arm and has bugh Google doesn't like to fix bcoz they think nobody cares.. Local models for coding ?? which ones and whatz the point bcoz they cant stand in front of frontline LLMs unless you are building some mickeymouse webpages.. AI studio now uses antigravity all on cloud efficiently..
The newer Intel and AMD chips with better battery performance essentially killed Arm on laptops.. Actually u can get a 32GB Intel Ultra 2 15 inch Yogi 7i aura for $800 these days, why pay 2X for some Arm laptop...
Just wait til they release $400 googlebook where you pretty much can do all the coding locally for a fraction of the price..
I'm not saying there are users for these Arm laptops, there certainly are but not the smart ones and I have yet to see a compelling reason to buy one for that price when x86 chips are equal or better and not have to worry about compatibility. The last thing is you take this laptop on a travel and you figure out something you really needed doesn;t work.. LOL
Your argument is quite literally one: You can run better models with Google's servers if you pay them monthly. And you say nobody has a reason to stay local. I agree(d) on the first point, and disagree(d) on the second. Let's move on.
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People do run on local.. I agree.. Not everybody. You better off running them on a macmini which is optimized ro run a local llm and agents 24x7 for this.. Why do u need a arm laptop??? when you are handicapped for compatibility.. Im not saying dont buy arm, but buy one if it only costs 1/2 the price of your potential x86 or a macmini target device... x86 and macmini is no compromise devices for this Ai usecase. That is why macmini is sold out and Arm laptops are on firesale. The people who are chasing arm laptops are the one who have no clue and just see 32GB and think its a great deal.. Also arm laptops are bad for non-tech-savvy people bcoz they can't navigate the compatibility issues and bad for tech-savvy bcoz they use those power apps which won;t work on Arm.. Lose-lose situation
Can relate. Got an absolute steal on a ARM64 Surface Laptop 7 ($800 for brand new Elite/32Gb/1TB/W11P) and I am already frustrated by the snapdragon compatibility... and I fully knew all of this prior to purchasing, and would consider myself an advanced user. So yeah, it's absolutely fast as hell, but it seems like there's always some small annoying issue that doesn't happen in x86 (like missing options from the right-click menu on some software). But again, I will say the battery life is amazing and native apps are insanely fast.
Can relate. Got an absolute steal on a ARM64 Surface Laptop 7 ($800 for brand new Elite/32Gb/1TB/W11P) and I am already frustrated by the snapdragon compatibility... and I fully knew all of this prior to purchasing, and would consider myself an advanced user. So yeah, it's absolutely fast as hell, but it seems like there's always some small annoying issue that doesn't happen in x86 (like missing options from the right-click menu on some software). But again, I will say the battery life is amazing and native apps are insanely fast.
It's a catch-22 situation. In order for companies to support ARM, enough people need to buy ARM or at least MS and Snapdragon need to "bribe" software and hardware companies to update their support for it. Otherwise, a great technology (like Apple Silicon" will die on the vine.
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It does like this (or spark laptops) is not your cup of tea, and likely for many others. But I can think of many (including myself) using this or spark. I am not going to buy a $3K spark laptop, because that wont be a value for money for me personally, but if it comes out at $2k with 64GB RAM, I would absolutely consider it a steal - for me.
I do SW development and I have Gemini AI Pro subscription. I use Gemini AND local models for coding. There are many other scenarios too. You may not see a need, but there are lots of people doing this.
Have you used an Windows on ARM recently? You don't need to be a noob on x86 to use it. While it has its weaknesses, it also has many strengths. Its weaknesses get a lot of press from some people because one of their legacy app cant run on it, or because they cant run their favorite game at 8k and gazillion hertz. I agree its not a good choice for those, but for a lot of others who keep an open mind - it is absolutely a great choice.
Google Antigravity,, I do a lot more and I do it on a 6 year old Thinkpad with 16GB of memory.... Heck it runs so better on my $400 M4 16Gb Macmini... Im sure you know Antigravity doesn't work properly on Arm and has bugh Google doesn't like to fix bcoz they think nobody cares.. Local models for coding ?? which ones and whatz the point bcoz they cant stand in front of frontline LLMs unless you are building some mickeymouse webpages.. AI studio now uses antigravity all on cloud efficiently..
The newer Intel and AMD chips with better battery performance essentially killed Arm on laptops.. Actually u can get a 32GB Intel Ultra 2 15 inch Yogi 7i aura for $800 these days, why pay 2X for some Arm laptop...
Just wait til they release $400 googlebook where you pretty much can do all the coding locally for a fraction of the price..
I'm not saying there are users for these Arm laptops, there certainly are but not the smart ones and I have yet to see a compelling reason to buy one for that price when x86 chips are equal or better and not have to worry about compatibility. The last thing is you take this laptop on a travel and you figure out something you really needed doesn;t work.. LOL
Google Antigravity,, I do a lot more and I do it on a 6 year old Thinkpad with 16GB of memory.... Heck it runs so better on my $400 M4 16Gb Macmini... Im sure you know Antigravity doesn't work properly on Arm and has bugh Google doesn't like to fix bcoz they think nobody cares.. Local models for coding ?? which ones and whatz the point bcoz they cant stand in front of frontline LLMs unless you are building some mickeymouse webpages.. AI studio now uses antigravity all on cloud efficiently..
The newer Intel and AMD chips with better battery performance essentially killed Arm on laptops.. Actually u can get a 32GB Intel Ultra 2 15 inch Yogi 7i aura for $800 these days, why pay 2X for some Arm laptop...
Just wait til they release $400 googlebook where you pretty much can do all the coding locally for a fraction of the price..
I'm not saying there are users for these Arm laptops, there certainly are but not the smart ones and I have yet to see a compelling reason to buy one for that price when x86 chips are equal or better and not have to worry about compatibility. The last thing is you take this laptop on a travel and you figure out something you really needed doesn;t work.. LOL
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